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Month: January 2021

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Inauguration day clashes loom – The US in crisis and need for a socialist alternative

January 16, 2021 Tony Saunois CWI secretary

Amid unprecedented events, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington on 6 January. Hundreds, some armed, then stormed the congress buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Donald Trump, promising a “wild” […]

Japan

Japan’s change of prime minister fails to stem government’s problems

January 15, 2021 Carl Simmons (Kokusai Rentai, CWI Japan)

2020 was a tempestuous year for Japan, as well as the rest of the world. In August, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history. However, it had been clear for […]

Finland

Finland: Happiest country in the world?

January 14, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

Finland has, for the third year in a row, been declared the happiest country in the world in the “World Happiness Report.” Strong unions and a strong welfare state contribute to this ranking, but these […]

World Economy

Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s

January 13, 2021 Robin Clapp, from The Socialist (Issue 1116), the weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

For over a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises. 2021 has ushered in new lockdowns in the UK, Germany […]

Lebanon

Lebanon’s overlapping crises create desperate situation for working class

January 12, 2021 Iain Dalton

Like many countries around the world, 2021 has begun with a new lockdown being implemented across Lebanon, until the end of January. This is a result of a dramatic increase in the numbers of Covid […]

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Sweeping arrests of activists presage dark period ahead

January 12, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

Last Wednesday, January 6th, more than a thousand state forces carried out pre-dawn raids on 73 premises in Hong Kong. They arrested 53 activists and politicians for “subversion” under the National Security Law imposed by […]

US

Pro-Trump supporters’ attacks on Capitol Hill – A socialist response

January 11, 2021 Independent Socialist Group (USA) statement

On January 6th, the Congress of the United States formally certified the results of the Electoral College, which Joe Biden won. On the same day, President Trump gave a speech to a rally outside the […]

Engels

Engels on the origins of women’s oppression and its relevance to today’s struggles

January 9, 2021 Christine Thomas

Continuing our series of articles commemorating the 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, we look at the relevance of his important work, ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’, and […]

Sweden

Sweden: Covid devastation as nurses pushed beyond breaking point

January 9, 2021 Edmund Schluessel (CWI in Finland)

As 2020 came to a close, the Swedish health care system reached a point many feared. Nurses in Sweden’s hospitals, strained from months of 13-hour shifts and with no end in sight to the rampant […]

Obituary

Obituary: Jörg Winter – 40 years active in the Marxist movement

January 8, 2021 Ursel Beck, Stuttgart

On December 15, 2020, comrade Jörg Winter from Stuttgart, Germany, died at the age of 65. We mourn the loss of our comrade of many years. The nuclear arms build-up at the end of the […]

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    January 14, 2021
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    January 13, 2021
  • Lebanon’s overlapping crises create desperate situation for working class
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